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Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

2009

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RE: GRAPH PAPER COMIC BOOKS SHOULD BE CENSORED FROM THE PUBIC DOMAIN!!!

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Dear Friends:

ALL COMIC BOOKS (not JUST the ones drawn on graph paper, neither) ARE PURE EVIL – PERIOD!   These disgusting fantasy books will be the ruin of the fragile & innocent brains of our youth! HURRY, pull them ALL out of Libraries, Homes, & Book stores – basically eliminate them from the entire existing PUBIC DOMAIN! – END OF DISCUSSION!

Just wanted ya all to know we just got back from an EggBert family vacation at Universal Studios & Adventure Island in Orlando. ZOUNDS, we had a Super-Duper time!  Unicorns, Marmadukes & Butterflies, we wish you all could have been there with us!!!

Sincerely,

EggBert & Family  (Except my 3rd-Cousin 4-times removed, Nutrina Nipless, who – while floating on the Horribly Haggared Funny-Page Floom –

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– accidentally got both of her nipples ripped off by an Elongated, overhanging Dagwood tree branch

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& was flown in a Flash by Hercules helicopter over the Incredible green-colored, monster-sized roller-coaster

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to receive Fantastic Care at Adventure Island’s privately-funded medical emergency infirmary.

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Unfortunately, non-wealthy, un-eNamored & obviously non-ambitious Nutrina does not have nor deserve adequate Health Insurance coverage so the good Dr. couldn’t re-attach the Doomed nipples in the correct areas on her Wonderful Womanly body. However, in good Spirits, some of the financially-conservative EggBert family members pitched in some X-tra Capital America coinage and, well…needless to say, By Crom, within the EggBert Family Circles she is now referred to as “Nutrina Naval-Nippled Dildo-Bert”)

SF School District

My new local hero, Sara Green, in reference to book censorship in the SF School District

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From Stormland TV News;

But the idea of a school completely removing access to a book is troubling to others.

“I don’t like the idea of just taking a book out because someone has an issue with it. Really, that’s more the parents job. I feel that we can look at those with kinds; we can talk about what is in the book. It really shouldn’t be the school job to teach the kids that, that’s a parent issue I believe,” Sara Green said.

Green likens this decision to the Harry Potter books, which were removed from some schools. No matter where parents stand on this most recent book debate, they all agree that parent-student communication is critical.

“I think it’s important for a parent and a child to be open with each other. But it also should be the parents decision to decide what’s best for them,” Giblin said.

“They’re exposed to it whether it’s in the book or not, so maybe it is a good thing to have there for a parent to have that frank discussion with their child to teach them what is and isn’t appropriate about it,” Green said.

Exactly! Why do some parents think they know what is best for other people’s kids?

Platting Fees Sioux Falls

Is the City of Sioux Falls scrambling to fix a big freaking mess?

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I have held off on this story for awhile, but I will give you a tidbit today, until I hear more. It was no mistake that platting fees came in way under projection this past year, but it’s not because of developers but because of the city. According to rumors I have heard the city started looking into the low numbers and discovered that developers found a loophole in the fee collection and the city just became aware of it recently, now the city is scrambling to fix it and the developers are not one bit too happy about it. I could give two-shits either way, my concern is since taxpayers were forced to pay their fair share by only one vote by our mayor we should either get a refund or put the money in a savings account until the platting fees catch up, or suspend the tax all together. We were duked into the tax increase by the city’s planning office and I don’t think it is fair that we pay a tax that was based on a lie.

More of this story to come. I’m assuming the City Council will have to vote on any changes and I guarantee their will be a shitstorm when that happens. I’ll keep you posted.

Veterans Day

Veteran’s Day post of the day

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(SD) The Volante

Nation at a crossroads this Veterans Day

By LeighAnn Dunn • November 11, 2009

Before the Iraq War, our nation had a policy of not striking a potential enemy unless our interests were clearly endangered of imminent attack.

The Iraqi invasion changed that policy.

This “first strike” standard also obligates our nation to another standard, which is to take extraordinary steps to prevent wars our leaders can see developing in the future. One threat we clearly see and can prevent is further damage from climate change. The U.S. Department of Defense, the CIA, the State Department and the National Intelligence Council see this threat and are all incorporating man-made climate change as a security threat into their long-term planning. Here are some climate change scenarios our nation’s top military minds are looking at:

• Climate change dries up water and creates famine. Nations panic. Wars erupt. American troops get deployed.

• Climate change makes sea levels rise, creating tens of millions of refugees. Refugee camps are ripe recruiting grounds for terrorist organizations.

• Climate change fuels radical storms to occur more frequently. This stretches military resources from their primary mission: defending America against our enemies.

Top military and intelligence authorities are working on strategies to respond:

•  In February the Pentagon and State Department will include a climate section in their next respective Quadrennial Review.

•  Last year, the National Intelligence Council said “global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. National security interests over the next 20 years.”

• This fall, the CIA launches a center on climate change to examine security risks.

This year’s Veterans Day finds our nation at a crossroads clouded by political wrangling. Lobbyists for oil and coal companies want to kill climate change legislation in Congress right now, because their clients get rich keeping things the way they are, even though our military and intelligence leaders know climate change will create a series of wars around the world.

Our nation spends $1 billion per day on crude oil from other countries, some of which are unstable or hostile to America’s security. American consumers are forced to help fund both sides of the war against terrorism. Add to the monetary costs the lives of American soldiers, like those who served with me in Iraq. Since 1973, we’ve known America remains threatened as long as we depend on foreign oil.

Our nation has a stronger obligation than ever before to avoid wars that can be prevented to preserve our national interests. I can think of no better response than to pass the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act in Congress, and put our nation in the leadership position to end this threat now.

LeighAnn Dunn

USD Graduate Student and member of the S.D. National Guard

Thune

Ironic Johnny is one hot commodity (H/T – Helga)

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Hubba, Hubba!

Republicans say the Democratic proposals fail to address the problem of rising medical costs. Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.) said the Democrats’ legislation will cripple the economy by increasing taxes. “It’s going to fall on a lot of average middle-class Americans,” Mr. Thune said.

You obviously are misleading the public, again. First off, where is your concern about the middle-class over the billions wasted in the Iraq & Afghan wars? Or GW’s TARP funding? Or the fact that 50% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills? As for your tax concerns, I don’t know too many ‘middle-class’ Americans making $500,000 a year, that may be in your world John, but not in mine (those will be the individuals taxed to pay for health reform).

‘Regular guy’ Thune is hot commodity in GOP circles

November 10, 2009 — Updated 2315 GMT (0715 HKT)
Washington (CNN) — He walks through Washington’s Reagan National Airport, arriving as he does nearly every Monday from a weekend home in South Dakota. He makes his way unnoticed.

But John Thune’s anonymity may not last forever.

He is a Republican on the rise: a freshman senator who is already a member of the GOP leadership.

As head of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, Thune runs the weekly strategy session where all Senate Republicans try to find consensus on the best way to challenge President Obama and the Democratic majority.

“It’s probably the most candid assessment that we have in a given week,” Thune said, riding the subway to the Tuesday lunch.

With just 40 Republicans in the Senate now, Thune insists that there is still a diversity of GOP views — but one that he argues must be expanded.

“Because, like, there is tall white men, short white men, old white men and middle-aged white men, in our party”

Thune argues that Republicans can rebuild only by uniting around a promise to control spending — and meaning it.

His big push these days is to return unused bailout money.

“The TARP program now has over $300 billion of unspent funds. Why not end that program and apply it to the federal debt?”

Thune is concerned about the spending? What rock were you living under the past 8 years? I think you are more concerned about a black man as president, just admit it already.

“We want to see more people joining our party,” Thune said.

White, Christian conservatives, that is.

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